The Faces of Medicaid

[ehrnst]

Medicaid serves one in every five Americans, or nearly 60 million people. But who are they?

Faces of Medicaid, a new online project from the Kaiser Family Foundation moves beyond statistics to profile a diverse group of individuals and families from across the country who rely on the Medicaid program and describes the variety of ways that Medicaid helps them.

http://facesofmedicaid.kff.org

[nc4bo]

1. The faces of you and I, all of us! +1. nt

[ehrnst]

2. I think that story of the family of Claire really hits home.

That family is not low income, but the sheer amount of care needed for her would destroy them financially.

[sam11111]

3. cut Medicaid? some facts

Top 1% have $16 trillion

(link was included as part of daily KOS)

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The Wealth Report
Plutonomics ...
By Robert Frank, Wall Street Journal - Jan 8, 2007

... The nation’s top 1% of households own .... more than $16 trillion in wealth ...
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The top 10% have $33 trillion

Note that in the bar graph you add the top part to the second part to get the top ten percent's share of the wealth. That is,
34.6% plus

38.5%
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73.1%.....is the percent of all US wealth now in the hands of the top ten percent of people.
( 45 trillion being the total wealth...though some estimates put it as high as 155 trillion...see Federal Reserve site)